The spread of digital technology, which allows anyone (in theory)
to disseminate in-formation on the Internet, is the greatest and a
dramatic new ethical question of the modern world. It is especially
true for the principles that traditionally have guided jour-nalism.
This article addresses some of the central dilemmas that journalism faces in this new context, and poses questions regarding possible limits to what should be made pub-lic, in view of the loss of this control historically applied through journalism and the everpresent hypothesis of anonymity on the net.
